DrunkenMage
Intoxicated Arch-Mage
Unless you magically kill all the Sons and Daughters of Skyrim, there will always be a resistance to the Empire from any Nord who wishes to be able to freely worship Talos. This is exactly what is happening in real-life in Afghanistan.
Many who worship Talos are fighting for or siding with the Empire. Talos worship isn't solely linked to the solders of the Stormcloak rebellion whom are fighting for various reasons not just Talos.
The only thing holding the Stormcloak Jarls together is Ulfric, the others wouldn't be able to agree on the color of pl*ps. Two of them believe Ulfric is power hungry and are siding with him simply because he is the devil they know, the others? One wants Riften instead of their Hold, another wants more power over the other Jarls and the last one is barely holding onto his seat while he has grand plans of enslaving an entire ethnic group.
I'll say this again, because you milk drinkers obviously aren't getting it.
ALL. EMPIRES. FALL.
That they do, though in TES the Imperials have this nasty habit of cropping back up again. The Third Empire has been on the brink of destruction about four times now, you may think it is dead, but then it hits back.
So shall the Dominion, and so shall the Cyrodilic Empire. Guerilla tactics will outlast traditional militaries unless the military adopts a scorched earth policy - in which case, there will be no Tamriel to live in. Even then, underground pockets of resistance may still exist.
Then what you're actually arguing is that neither side can win as the loser adopts guerilla tactics against the now in power faction, striking wherever and whenever they can. That argument includes the Forsworn who under the Stormcloaks will be fighting a whole lot more since they're getting enslaved. The doubled edged sword when it comes to depending on slave labor for wealth, you require a constant stream of slaves.
No need for a scorched earth policy as dragons and bandits are burning and raiding the farms, and the food/resources given by the Empire are important to the people of Skyrim.
So too would Stormcloak sympathizers in the event of an Imperial victory in the civil war.
As there would Empire sympathizers... The point is moot.
SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS. [/thread]
You've just done a full circle and invalidated your own stance. Welcome to the Skyrim Civil War. [/thread]
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